Feeding Geese Canvas Print

Six miles.
My brother, Bob, and I would ride our bicycles six miles to get to this pond.
It was somewhere in Massapequa. I think.
It’s been so long ago.
But I remember the distance.
Six miles.
It was a badge of honor, of sorts, to casually bring it up in a conversation.
Casually, because we were told it was rude to brag.
It felt like we were WAY in the ”country.”
By the way, I never really knew WHY we would say “in the country” anytime we were ANYWHERE but in the city.
But Massapequa felt like the country. It wasn’t really any different than North Merrick but they had this park.
And they had this POND!
Bob and I ordered some fishing poles and fishing gear from the back of a comic book.
When the package arrived in the mail we discovered it had REAL minnows packed in shrink wrap.
BOY, did THEY STINK!
So we took our fishing poles and stinky minnows on our bicycles and we rode SIX MILES!
We couldn’t wait to cast our lines i...

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